Who prefers working in family firms? An exploratory study of individuals’ organizational preferences across 40 countries

Employee’s Organizational Preferences: a Study of Family Businesses

“…The odds ratio of job status confirms that 6.2 odds for the preference for working in family businesses increases by 62% if the respondent has a managerial position. This means that those who have managerial positions, as opposed to those who do not, are more likely to work in family businesses, and this finding is in agreement with the findings of other studies across the world (Block et al, 2016). As far as labour market experience is concerned, it has shown that those employees who have more than ten years of work experience are more likely to work in family businesses, as opposed to those who are less experienced in the job market.…”

“…If this relationship is not interrupted by other matters, the employer can consider this fit a factor that is more effective than salaries and promotions in attracting employees and keeping them in the organisation for longer periods of time. Further, the P-O fit theory has been widely used by scholars in understanding the employees' allegiance to organisations (Block et al, 2016).…”

“…In terms key features of the family business employees the findings of the previous studies have brought much confusion concerning the compatibility of employees and such organisations. This issue becomes even more sensitive when employees join family firms coming from nonfamily firms (Block, 2016). Elaboration of organizational behavioral aspects concerning employees' compatibility with family businesses have become an important societal and research problem.…”

The curious case of human resource development in family‐small‐to‐medium sized enterprises

“…Similarly, nonfamily employees may hold different individual goals and levels of aspiration compared with family members. For instance, Block, Fisch, Lau, Obschonka, and Presse () found that women and aspiring entrepreneurs were attracted to working in family enterprises because they provide unique learning contexts for individuals with self‐employment intentions.…”

Women Entrepreneurship in Family Business

“…In an international comparative study, Robinson and Stubberud (2012) find that that in several countries more women than men state that a family business background was a motive for entrepreneurship. An interesting variation of these studies is provided by Block et al (2016) who explore who prefers to work for family businesses rather than non-family firms, and find that i.a. a preference to work in family firms correlates positively with being female.…”